Help and Instigate

Help

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Instigate and help are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Instigate" instead a verb "Help".

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

Instigate verb - To bring (something volatile or intense) into being.

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Help and instigate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Help" instead a verb "Instigate".

As a random example, in Thank You, Jeeves he decides to help his friend Chuffy, who likes a girl but won't make the first move, by kissing the girl in front of him to instigate Operation: Jealousy.

Source: Chronic Hero Syndrome
He turns on his own people to help Ichigo, not because he believes in Ichigo's cause, but just because it'll get him close enough to Ichigo to instigate another fight with this Worthy Opponent.

Source: Blood Knight / Anime and Manga
While Kawai didn't instigate the bullying like Shouya and Ueno, Kawai did nothing to help Shouko and laughed along with them, but refused to acknowledge she had any part in the bullying and it's even her crying when Shouya points it out that gets him labeled as the class' scapegoat.

Source: Manga / Koe No Katachi

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